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‘60 Minutes’ Executive Producer Bill Owens Resigns, Saying He Was No Longer Allowed To Make “Independent Decisions” About The Show


Owens said that he lost the ability to make independent decisions.

Owens’ departure comes amid settlement talks between CBS and Donald Trump ‘s team over a lawsuit that he filed over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris. Many legal observers call the lawsuit frivolous, but CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, needs administration approval for its proposed merger with Skydance. She wrote that she and Tom Cibrowski, president and executive editor at CBS News, “are committed to 60 Minutes and to ensuring that the mission and the work remain our priority.

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